Quotes About Favor

Every dog has its day!!

For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

We currently live in the generation that does not wait for fortune to work in your favour, but creates your own luck.

Daniel 6:1-15; 7:15-27). I establish that if laws, statutes, codifications, bills, charters, and constitutions are changed, they are changed in my favor, so that I may prosper in the place of my assignment and the land in which I am domiciled (Daniel 6:25-28).

Mi señora, yo atravesaré cien sarracenos por vos si así lo deseáis, y si me dais la venia para portar vuestro favor.

I lifted my face to the sun and let its warmth and light caress me with its favor.

el favor de la diosa para que su matrimonio sea fecundo.

When we were seated, they brought us beer, made with hops, called here "Tchang" and brewed in the cloister. It has a tendency to rapidly produce embonpoint upon the monks, which is regarded as a sign of the particular favor of Heaven.

Radio stations broadcast without interruption the music of Chopin, since it is thought that this favors concentration and serious reflection.

When you've got the devil's own luck, you're immune from the usual run of disasters. Such people must be utilized.

Before you ask the person to vote, do something nice and unexpected that will make that person feel the need to reciprocate the favor.

Grace is unmerited favor. It is reward given to those who deserve judgment. Grace means that Christ takes the punishment we deserve, so that we can get the reward that Christ deserves.

Yes. She had picked out the tiles in the kitchen, hadn't she? I regarded Aiden with a little more favor than I'd felt before.

The term "procrastination" was derived from the Latin pro, meaning "forward, forth, or in favor of," and crastinus, meaning "of tomorrow." Its literal translation can thus be taken to be the moving forward of something to tomorrow, or favoring tomorrow as the ideal time.

Think of it as the dangle: a wealthy patron can often enjoy favor and influence with a hard-up institution that are far out of proportion to any gifts that have actually been made, because the canny donor learns to dangle the possibility of future gifts, and that is a possibility that the museum or university cannot afford to overlook. When the dangle is executed correctly, there is almost nothing that the institution will not do to keep the donor (or even the prospective donor) happy.

I knew that he was trying to do me a favor, and a week ago I would have jumped at the opportunity for free shoes. But for some reason I didn't feel right about it. I quietly gathered up my things and left a pair of copper jots on his stool before I left. Why? Because pride is a strange thing, and because generosity deserves generosity in return. But mostly because it felt like the right thing to do, and that is reason enough.

Hecho-dije-. Aunque será duro- Me volví hacia Denna-. ¿Y tú? Te debo un gran favor ¿Cómo puedo devolvértelo? Pídeme lo que quieras y lo haré. Cualquier cosa que este al alcance de mis posibilidades . Veamos, ¿qué sabes hacer, además de tocar tan bien que Telhu y todos los ángeles llorarían si te oyeran?

has long been known that effort can be the secret sauce that makes things better. One of the classic findings in psychology is that the more effort you put into something, the more you value it. This is the logic of Benjamin Franklin's classic advice on how to turn a rival into a friend—ask him or her to do you a favor. Having worked to help you, they'll like you more.

Christ has gained God's favor on your behalf. So your obedience is never a fearful payment, but a hymn of gratitude to a God who met you where you were and did for you what you could not have done for yourself.

This means that if you obey him for a thousand years, you will have no more of his favor than when you first believed.

We don't obey to get his favor; we obey because his favor has fallen on us and transformed our hearts, giving us the willingness and power to obey.

Many are called, few are chosen.

Both men knew the only thing more valuable than a favor well done was a secret well kept. This had the potential to be both.

We must remember that more is accomplished with the favor of God than with the favor of man.